ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,138, issued on June 24, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).
"Position sensor system and method" was invented by Christian Schott (Bevaix, Switzerland), Gael Close (Bevaix, Switzerland) and Bruno Brajon (Bevaix, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensor system is arranged for determining a position of a sensor device movable along a predefined path relative to a magnetic source. The system includes the magnetic source and the sensor device. The magnetic source has a first plurality of magnetic pole pairs arranged along a first track and a second plurality of magnetic pole pairs arranged al...